WILLIAM WARFIELD singer Showboat, Porgy & Bess ORIG PHOTO Black Americana

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This is a
vintage original
8x10 inch publicity photograph (not a reprint) of
William Caesar Warfield (1920 – 2002)
, an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor. One of his earliest professional engagements was in Marc Blitzstein's Broadway opera, Regina. His breakthrough came when he gave his recital debut in New York's Town Hall in 1950.
He went on to produce a highly acclaimed album of selections from Porgy and Bess with Leontyne Price in 1963.
He made an appearance on The Colgate Comedy Hour and on a program called TV Recital Hall in 1951, the same year that he made his big screen debut in Show Boat. In 1952, Warfield performed in Porgy and Bess during a tour of Europe sponsored by the U.S. State Department (he made six separate tours for the US Department of State, more than any other American solo artist.) In this production he played opposite the opera star Leontyne Price, whom he soon married, but the demands of two separate careers left them little time together. They divorced in 1972, but were featured together in a 1963 studio recording of excerpts from Porgy and Bess.
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